FAQ
Co-Founders Alex Guerrero and Scott Laslie have identified an opportunity to give more people access to great interior design. Traditionally, interior design is a full service business, where a client hires a designer to design, plan and execute a design vision for a room or home. It is an expensive process that can take months and creates a very intimate relationship between the interior designer and client. At the same time there has been a huge growth in the popularity of makeover design shows and magazines, with more and more people interested in great interior design.
Alex and Scott believe that a big opportunity exists to introduce interior design to more people by introducing great, accessible design through a web-based experience. They believe that during this time of economic uncertainty your living space is your sanctuary and becomes an important part of your well being. Also, there is no such thing as disposable income and that every dollar is an investment and needs to be maximized. Found Market's unique, online experience is a way to deliver interior design advice and guidance allowing you to invest wisely, showing you how to put it all together and create a living space based on your personal style.
Co-Founders Scott Laslie and Alex Guerrero lead the design and management of your project. Scott oversees all aspects of your design, putting together your palette, furniture plan and select each piece for your room, while Alex manages your project, searches out the best resources that fit your budget, keeping the work flowing and on time.
The more information that you send us the more we get to know you and that begins by you answering our questionnaire and setting up our initial consultation. What’s cool about Found Market is that once you sign on, you can create your own design wall where we can communicate throughout your project, post ideas, magazine tears and where we have you input room and furniture measurements, upload photos and/or videos of the space, your furniture and your favorite things. Remember our goal is to understand your personal style.
It should only take a couple of hours to thoughtfully answer the questionnaire and have our initial consultation by phone. Once you’ve signed on depending on how many rooms you would like designed, it should take approximately 2 hours per room to measure and take and upload photos/videos of the room and your furniture. We recommend blocking off a weekend day to get the work done. Our initial communication is very important for us to fully understand your design goals before we begin, so we will communicate quite a bit via your design wall and by phone. As we are designing your space, we’ll communicate with you when needed.
We really believe in reusing and repurposing and the look we try to achieve is really about mixing old and new. Depending on your design goals we review and try to use your existing things, which we show on your plan. Regarding the things that we edit out we will encourage you to pass it on to a loved one or friend, or better yet to donate to your favorite charity to become someone else’s found treasure.
Our standard pricing is based on room size and use. Click here for our price list. We require a 30% deposit before we begin any design work with the balance due prior to our sending you your project plan.
Typically our project plans take four to six weeks to complete, depending on the size of your project. We will be extremely transparent regarding timing, based on the amount of projects we are working on at the time of your order.
You get to keep your design wall as long as you like and keep in touch with us via your wall. Just post your question and we promise to answer your questions within 24 hours. We also encourage you to post pictures of your progress on your design, it will keep us informed on how you are doing.
If you need extra help or would like us to work with you to help with the ordering, shopping and purchasing, we are happy to accommodate you based on an hourly rate.